Clay Gloster, Jr, PhD, PE

Associate Professor of Electrical & Computer   Engineering
LK Downing Hall, Room 3014
Howard University
College of Engineering, Architecture and Computer Sciences (CEACS)
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
2300 Sixth Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20059
(202) 806-6628
(202) 806-5258 (fax)
email: [email protected].

Courses Taught

Introduction to Computer Engineering
Introduction to Engineering
Microprocessor Applications
Digital Systems Design
Digital Systems Design Lab
Advanced Digital Systems Design
Advanced Digital Systems Design Lab
ASIC Design

Research

A Remote Adaptive-Computing REsource (RARE) on the Internet
BESTEAMS Project

Biography

Clay Gloster, Jr. is currently a member of the faculty in the department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at Howard University. He is leading the effort to begin a new undergraduate program leading to the B.S. degree in Computer Engineering . This program was APPROVED by the Howard University Board of Trustees (January 2002). A sample curriculum is available by clicking here. He is also planning to establish the Center for Embedded Systems Research at Howard University.

He served on the faculty at NC State University for more than 7 years where he was involved in research in the High Performance Digital Signal Processing Laboratory, the Electronic Research Laboratory, and the Center for Advanced Computing and Communication. He also spent two summers working at NASA GSFC. He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (Greensboro, NC) and the Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering from North Carolina State University (Raleigh NC). He also has been employed with IBM, the Department of Defense, and the Microelectronics Center of North Carolina.

Dr. Gloster is a member of Eta Kappa Nu, Tau Beta Pi, the IEEE Computer Society, and the ACM. He received best paper and presentation awards for a paper presented at the International Conference on Computer Design. He also developed several CAD tools which are a part of the OASIS (Open Architecture Silicon Implementation Software) system, an automated hardware design system currently in use at over 75 universities worldwide. 

Areas of Research and Teaching Interest

Dr. Gloster is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Howard University where he leads the RARE Project. His current research interests are in the general area of reconfigurable/adaptive computing. Current research focuses on the identification of potential applications and the development of automated tools that assist scientists/engineers in mapping these applications onto reconfigurable/adaptive computing resources. A major project in this research program involves the development of a remote hardware resource allocation system for distributed adaptive computing. Dr. Gloster is also actively conducting research in the area of technology based curriculum development and distance education.

Dr. Gloster has taught courses on digital system design (using Verilog) and VLSI design for testability (using VHDL). He has published over 30 papers in peer reviewed journal publications. Clay has also developed several CAD tools which are a part of the MCNC OASIS (Open Architecture Silicon Implementation Software) system. He has served on the program committee and as session chair for several international conferences. He received best paper and presentation awards for a paper presented at the International Conference on Computer Design and has received numerous fellowships and national awards. His previous research interests were in the area of VLSI design for testability.

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